Love your enemies.. it pisses them off.

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AlexK — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 19:44:13 GMT

This is a great read, of course. Thank you for writing it up! I would like to mention two more factors that are very important for me:

1. Robustness. Bugs and issues erode my bottom line and my customers's confidence, so in many cases it is much cheaper to use a reliable product with less features. For example, it is perfectly fine if Twitter loses a rant about long line at Starbucks. Yet it is unacceptable if my hospital loses a fact from my medical history. So the technologies good enough for Twitter might not be good enough in other cases.

2. Potential speed of change. If needed, we can have a change in an open source product in a couple of days, doing it ourselves or hiring somebody. If, however, a closed source product does not work as we need it, our options are more limited, and we can lose money because of it.

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Dba — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 07:27:24 GMT

Microsoft case study: Motricity, a mobile advertising provider, moves a business-critical database from Sybase IQ to the Microsoft platform.

http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?CaseStudyID=710000000170

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dror — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 18:49:15 GMT

Great post

Very interesting.

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lazydba247 — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 09:38:50 GMT

Interesting and well written.

thanks maria!

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JoanT — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 21:56:40 GMT

Wonderful post. Thank you for this.

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lit — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 06:14:23 GMT

That was gooooooood! thanks maria.

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lit — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 06:19:36 GMT

God bless sql server!

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Sharon Dashet — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 07:56:19 GMT

Hi Maria,

Very well written as always. I hope MS will not let you down in this tough saturated arena.

On a humorous note: are you calling me old-style and domeeniring?

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Yaroslav Alpizar — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 14:36:12 GMT

Great post, didn't knew about these analytical solutions, very good introduction on the subject. Hope MS SQL soon offers a strong tool to compete with others.

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Assaf Fraenkel — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 14:58:29 GMT

Very good summary - enjoy the POC

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Maria Zakourdaev — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 15:33:25 GMT

Thanks everyone for the great feedback!!!

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Maria Zakourdaev — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 15:40:44 GMT

Sharon, on the Oracle vs SQL Server battlefield you were even harder than Avishai and Tal :-)

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Zainu — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 19:46:58 GMT

Great Post Maria.Nice explanation.

Product Support from the product vendor : I had a chance to work in Netezza (Mustang flavor)for almost 8 months and the support was not so good.

Don't know how the support now is with Twin fin and once IBM took over Netezza.